Latest Fishing Reports: Wales
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17/03/2011
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
17 Mar 2011 by David Hancock
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Skate showing in good numbers inshore if you want a fun, relaxing days fishing.
Cod and pollock offshore if you want a hard days work but big results.
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12/03/2011
Fishing Report by Gareth williams
on Spindrift New Dawn (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
12 Mar 2011 by Gareth williams
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Five Lads booked a 8hr night conger trip to the Holyhead Deeps on march 12th fishing was slow to start with polack up to 3lbs and dogs until steve rod bent over with a Monster 50lbs conger that was the biggest on the trip but we did have a ray as well a good nights fishing
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03/2011
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Mar 2011 by Gethyn Owen
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Our first weekend afloat in 2011 following our routine winter maintenance downtime was scheduled for the last weekend of February. With the boat full and small tides upon us it was an offshore foray into the deeps on the cards. Sadly the wind gods had other ideas and with W & NW blasts of air not dropping below 20mph for a few days, I decided to leave My Way dormant for another few days. Wouldn’t really be that fair to force the lads into the shallows were the possibility of fish this time of year was all but slim!
The following week the winds took some time off and the sun also came out to play. With plans to finish sanding and painting My Ways inside gunwales and then hopefully go find some fish following weekend. So it was on nice calm seas, though unfortunately 31ft tides that we finally got going once again for our 2011 campaign.
Spring tides restrict the fishing at Holyhead to inshore; the tidal pulls of such prolific areas such as the Deeps are far too strong for recreational angling in anything really larger than 28ft. so for the Saturday we opted for a slightly later sail at 10am and allow the ebbing tide to help us around to our destination of Trearddur Bay, stopping to drift a few of the reefs along the way.
The drifts however proved fruitless, with only a few nibbles from obliging pout and poor cod, our intended targets of coalie and pollack where no where to be seen, though based on the size of tide and the drift speeds we were having fun with; we’d give it another go later in the day when the LW slack was near us.
Anchoring just out of Trearddur Bay we were soon into an array of late winter and early spring fishing from Holyhead. Dogfish, whiting and codling making up the vast majority of catches with many rigs reeling in double and triple shots, mixed in with these we also had pout, poor cod and numerous small huss.
One angler even managing to land a triple shot of 3 small huss that had the 2 match anglers ‘cooing and awwing’ like kids in a sweet shop. Huss are usually worth far more points of the common dogfish and to catch them 3 a time, certainly good going.
This trend of fishing continued into our second mark, nothing to set the world alight but a steady stream of fish to keep everyone happy on a day where dusting down the fishing tackle was more the priority. Lunch today was the famous My Way chillie.
With Geoff having his 21st birthday (yeah right) another angler, Tony had brought a selection of cakes along to have after lunch with a cuppa.
To end the day we once again decided to try our luck on the drift, this time we were rewarded with pollack, coalfish and also some early herring. We don’t tend to see too many herring around Holyhead when on the drift and those we do see tend to be a little later – so it was certainly nice to see some coming to the boat.
We ended the day with 9 species, we had hoped to break the double figures for an early spring outing by giving Arthur the chance to land our 10th specie … sadly he never proved to be the dab hand at it!
Sunday we decided to stay within the confines of Holyhead bay and concentrate mainly on anchor work with the lads aboard My Way relatively new to sea angling. Many of them, albeit experienced coarse anglers had never been sea fishing before, let alone on a boat.
They were rewarded though in more fish than a carping year (not my words!) with dogs, whiting, huss a few dabs and some good sized codling falling to a variety of baits. One lad also managed to hook into a 3 bearded, specie 11 to get 2011 well under way.
Then there is good old chicken cam, well currently known as hand cam! Poor fella, thought it was a monster!
Let's hope the weather gods play fair this year and treat us all to some fantastic days afloat.
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12/02/2011
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
12 Feb 2011 by David Hancock
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Lots of quality cod and pollock showing on the wrecks at the moment .
And prices held from last year, £400 for the whole boat or £50 as individuals.
Saturday 12th Feb we had a nice hit, 120\140 cod and 12\15 pollock.
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08/02/2011
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
8 Feb 2011 by David Hancock
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Tides are dropping off this week and forecast settling.
C`mon, lets get out to them wrecks . . .
Dave.
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02/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Feb 2011 by Aaron Smith
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I do not know whether you have seen in the news that the Goverment is
>> trying to close down and get rid of over half of the Coastguard
>> stations and staff around the country.
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>> Basically at night time there will be two stations open, 1 in Aberdeen
>> and 1 in Southampton and of course Dover who will primarily be working
>> on the Channel Navigation Information System.
>> They are also plans to get rid of over 200 full time operations room
>> staff and
>> all the local knowledge that they possess.
>> There are also to be day stations
>> working nine to five in Swansea, Humber, Falmouth, Liverpool or
>> Belfast,
>> Shetland or Stornoway. All the others at Milford Haven, Brixham,
>> Holyhead,
>> Clyde,Forth, Solent, Yarmouth and Thames are to close.
>>
>> We as Coastguards are extremely worried about this for a number of
>> reasons:
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>> 1. How is somebody in Aberdeen going to know where the person on the
>> beach in Wales is, especially if the person cannot spell the name of
>> the beach. This analogy also covers loads of places around the country
>> where the place name is the same as somewhere else. I heard the other
>> day (in a Parlimentary debate, where the MP's across all parties are
> up
>> in
>> arms), a place name in Scotland that occurs in five different areas of
>> Scotland.
>>
>> 2. The MCA state that they are going to get busier, yet they think
> they
>> can cope
>> with half of the staff.
>>
>> 3. One of my main concerns (as fishing is close to my heart) is for
> the
>> anglers using our shores, boats etc. If God forbid somebody fell into
>> the sea off a rock or boat, the 999 call would go through to
>> Southampton. They would then have to work out where the call
>> came from, then start looking through databases to find the right
>> lifeboat and the right rescue teams to send, by this time I fear it
>> would be to late.
>>
>> Currently, the call is directed to the closest station and the
>> operations staff's local knowledge kicks in and the boat and team are
>> dispatched immediately. They would know that rescue team A (that is
>> nearer) is no good because it is market day, so it would be quicker to
>> send team B. This is the knowledge that is going to be lost.
>>
>> The MCA have written a consultation document that implies a radical
>> change to the way the service is delivered is the only possible way in
>> which to bring the Coastguard into the present. They then go on to
>> offer the opportunity to comment on the proposals - but insist upon
>> adequate evidence being presented to support the claims of the
>> respondent.
>>
>> However, the document provided by the MCA itself appears to be lacking
>> in supplying the salient details to back up the assertions made. For
>> example, it suggests that having two large Coastguard stations
> covering
>> the UK at night would be more resilient than the current number. This
>> would seem to ignore the fact that one station failure would cause a
>> 50% decrease in capacity to deal with incidents. Things may be
> quieter
>> at night, but that statistic ignores the fact that a major incident
> (or
>> two) could happen at any time. It is a simplistic and flawed way to
>> measure workload.can respond to.
>>
>> Our union the PCS has developed a letter for people to send
>> electronically to their MP. All people have to do is fill in their
>> name, email, and address, then press submit and it is automatically
>> sent to their MP, so no letter writing or posting is necessary and
> they
>> will get a reply from their MP.
>> The link to the page is http://www.pcs.org.uk/sos
>>
>> There is also a Facebook page (that is really to save Holyhead
>> Coastguard, but the link to the PCS is on the info page) View Boats Page
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30/01/2011
Fishing Report by Derek Williams
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
30 Jan 2011 by Derek Williams
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Hi my name is Derek Williams and my colleague is Jan Van Deventer, we are both school teachers at St Mary's College Crosby. Today we have had an amazing trip aboard this boat. We took ten school children aged 12 - 16 and spent 10 hours today fishing for Cod in the river Mersey. We caught 47 fish, cod, whiting and dab and the skipper ensured that no child blanked. We run a fishing club at the college and have used charter boats before however, we have never encountered such hospitality, and patience as we received today. The boy's were taught how to fish today by the Skipper Steve, he was also extremely patient with them when they endlessly got snagged. He was always giving us tea and coffee...kids too! He provided pies and biscuits for the kids and his hire equipment equipment was top draw. I would whole heartedly recommend this boat as he is a genuine nice guy who isn't just after the cash but cares about the 'young or old fishermen' on his boat regardless of their fishing ability. Thank you very much Steve and we will see you in the summer.
DEREK Williams
(Head of Boy's PE & Games)
EVC Co-ordinator
St Mary's College Crosby View Boats Page
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17/01/2011
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
17 Jan 2011 by Steve Andrews
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The start of 2011 has been a bit of a roller coaster plenty of fish on some tides and a little bit slower on others.
On the whole the winter fishing on the mersey over the winter has been very good with any amount of Thornback Rays ,Coddling,Whiting,Dabs,
I would like to thank everybody who has supported myself and Supreme through 2010 and look forward to seeing you on the new Supreme in 2011 cheers steve View Boats Page
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16/01/2011
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
16 Jan 2011 by David Hancock
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Well Folks,
we have officially had the coldest December since records began and today it's mid- January and Thirtteen degrees , Bizzarre !
Hopefully normal service will resume shortly.
The huge Cods that we were getting have slowed down and now it's mainly the mighty Dabs and whiting that are keeping us occupied.
Hopefully over the next couple of weeks we'll get the weather to be able to gett well offshore for some lunker Pollock, who knows, I'm not gonna try guessing the weather !
Keep at 'em ,
Dave.
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04/01/2011
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
4 Jan 2011 by David Hancock
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The cod are elusive at the moment but although the numbers are down the quality is up on most years. At the weekend most boats caught very little but cod to over 20 lb were landed.
The annual spratfest certainly makes things difficult but the lunkers are out there gorging on them. A thinkIng skipper will still find the fish. . .
If the waiting game for a lunker cod doesn't appeal then there's a fair bit of action close inshore for possibly one of our most under rated eating fish, the humble Dab.
They may not strip line off your reel at a rate of knots but they certainly make for a super supper !
Happy New Year to all our customers, old and new.
Thank you,
Dave.
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